Dams on the island are at 33.9% capacity, at higher levels than 2025, but still "not satisfactory enough to be carefree", Marios Hadjicostis, Chief Technical Engineer of the Water Development Department, told the Cyprus News Agency on Monday.
The best monthly inflow was that of March, he said.
He said that the water reservoirs are currently at 33.9% capacity, with a stored quantity at 98.7 million cubic meters.
The total inflow of the last three days was 3.75 million cubic meters, Hadjicostis added, noting that the total inflow since 1 October was 81 million cubic meters.
Compared to the corresponding period last year, "we are at better levels," he noted, since last year on this day the occupancy rate was 24.1%, at 70 million cubic meters.
"We are much better than last year, but not satisfactory enough to be carefree for the coming years," he said.
He added "we must always be very careful with the use of water," since, as he noted, droughts are a frequent phenomenon and are getting worse.
"This year we were lucky," said the chief engineer said, noting that the good inflows to the dams from October onwards were life-saving.
According to Hadjicostis, the best monthly inflow was that of March. “A very rare phenomenon,” he said, noting that March was rainier than all the previous months of the winter.
(Source: CNA)
